AI Chat History Management

The cluster focuses on users discussing the storage, persistence, searchability, and memory of conversation histories in AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, including frustrations with losing chats, desires for searchable archives, and ways to reference past interactions without context pollution.

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LOT LLM HISTORY UI UX IMO DeepSeek.com MOST DDG google.com chat chats history chatgpt conversation messages conversations message prompts previous

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sunaookami Sep 12, 2025 View on HN

Did you maybe talk about this in another chat? ChatGPT also uses past chats as memory.

doliveira Jul 25, 2023 View on HN

They literally already store the whole conversation...

vorticalbox Mar 7, 2023 View on HN

how do you make it remember past information if you do not store the past chat history?

fallinditch Sep 5, 2024 View on HN

For your 2nd suggestion, this would be solved if previous chats were (automatically) added to the vector database. Is this possible in this or similar apps?

toomuchtodo Jan 8, 2021 View on HN

Accountability and history. I have decades of email history, I’d like the same for my chats.

mephitix Apr 19, 2024 View on HN

I guess they mean that the chat conversations are not persisted in a DDG database. A bit misleading IMO

balder1991 Dec 3, 2025 View on HN

Not sure that’s even possible with ChatGPT embedding your chat history in the prompts to try to give more personal answers.

snadal Oct 31, 2024 View on HN

I would be happy if I could search my previous ChatGPT conversations! :)

chernichka Mar 8, 2023 View on HN

exactly, this just happened to me!! i need the chats back, I was doing an assignment with Chat GPT and all the feedback and information are gone!! I went to go to the bathroom, came back, and all the chats gone!! wtf

sim7c00 Jun 10, 2024 View on HN

i kind of like i can make a new chat and it remembers an old one. Because it spits out so many repeated stuff, especially with code - each time re-iterating a whole source part etc., or having tons of docs explanations repeated each time. the chat becomes really slow! a new chat is fast again. if it retains context, that's great :D